Access Officer
The Access Officer shall have as an overall responsibility the promotion of access to Pembroke College to all traditionally underrepresented backgrounds and to ensure that access remains a priority at all levels of college.
Specifically, the Access Officer shall
- Co-ordinate the Target Campaign within Pembroke College. This includes running a recruitment drive for volunteers, ensuring that all volunteers’ details are submitted to CUSU, and running training for all volunteers.
- Run the CUSU Target Campaign Shadowing Scheme in Pembroke. This includes organizing as much accommodation as possible for visiting students, recruiting undergraduate volunteers to look after visiting students and working with CUSU over the shadowing weekend(s) to ensure that the event runs smoothly.
- Organize the CUSU Target Open Day in Pembroke.
- Sit on the Costs and Access Committee alongside the President and Junior Treasurer.
- Represent Pembroke at CUSU Access meetings.
- The Access officer shall form a committee to aid running and organization of the access initiatives with Pembroke of both CUSU and college origin. The posts within the committee are to be determined and assigned as desired but to include:
(a) School Liaison Officer (Arts and Social Sciences) and (b) School Liaison Officer (Science and Engineering), who shall be selected by the Access Officer in Michaelmas term in coordination with college. In addition, the Anti-Racism officer will attend these meetings as Pembroke's GEEMA representative. The committee will address issues such as Open Days, the Alternative Prospectus and online admissions information. The results of these meetings are to be conveyed by the Access Officer to college via the Costs and Access Committee. - Be responsible for organizing the Access Road Show to extend access initiatives into Pembroke's link counties of Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire and Luton.
- Take an active interest in any access issues which arise at either college or university level.